Sagara Sanosuke left home at an early age to join the Sekihō Army (Sekihō-tai), leaving behind his father (Kamishimoemon), his mother (Naname), and his younger sister (Uki) who adored him. He would return home years later to discover that his mother was dead, having died a couple of years after the birth of his younger brother, Ota, who immediately began to admire Sanosuke for his bravery and boldness. Sanosuke would also find out that his family name was now Higashidani, although he would never use it himself. His sister, after Sanosuke's disappearance and then her mother's death, became overprotective of her younger brother and father, who worked as a local merchant and farmer with the infamy of being a local fighter. Ota, after Sanosuke leaves his family again, would eventually follow his brother's advice and train at the Kamiya Kasshin-Ryū style dojo to become strong. The Sekihoutai fought for the imperial alliance at the end of the Tokugawa regime and Sanosuke admired his captain, Sagara Sōzō and took the family name Sagara from him. The Sekihō Army were on assignment to spread word of the halving of taxes proclaimed by the revolution. However, when the revolutionary government encountered financial problems, they labeled the Sekihoutai as frauds to bury their promises. This setup was engineered by Shindō Tatewaki, a former officer in the imperial alliance. The Sekihoutai were designated scapegoats and to be executed; Sanosuke was the only survivor, other than his friend Tsukioka Katsuhiro. The exact circumstances of Sōzō's death differ between the animated version and the manga; in the manga Sanosuke realized he had been killed after seeing his decapitated head on display as a warning, while in the anime a wounded Sōzō pushed Sanosuke to safety off a cliff in order to save him before dying himself. Full of anger and bitterness, Sanosuke made a living as a fighter-for-hire who bore the nickname "Zanza" derived from his weapon, the zanbatō. Sanosuke's sword, the heaviest katana ever made in the Rurouni Kenshin universe, originates from the Ōnin Struggle. Due to wear the blade no longer has an edge. Sanosuke uses the sword to smash and crush. Hiruma Kihei and Gohei hire Sanosuke to kill Himura Kenshin, but after the former assassin defeats Sanosuke and Sanosuke learns of the truth of Kenshin's no-kill approach, Sanosuke becomes a valuable ally. He later adopts a boxing-like fighting skill, known for the strength of his right fist. Because the zanbatō broke during the fight, Sanosuke no longer wields it on a regular basis, using only one more time in the manga to defend the Kamiya dojo during the Jinchu arc. At the end of the manga series, Sanosuke leaves Japan to avoid becoming wrongfully arrested and travels the world. He is not heard from until five years later during a reunion of the Kenshin-gumi, in which he tells them via a letter that he is in Mongolia and will stay there for a while before heading back to Japan. 

(Source: Wikipedia)

__Height:__ 170 cm

Horohoro is an Ainu from Hokkaidō, a prefecture in Japan. In the English anime, he is described as from "the Northern Woods" instead of from Hokkaidō. He is the older brother of [Pirica](https://anilist.co/character/15558/Pirika-Usui) and his guardian ghost is [Kororo](https://anilist.co/character/20242/Kororo), a small nature spirit. Horohoro is a tall boy and he is most commonly seen wearing a white and blue skiing outfit, black shorts and skiing shoes that can be attached to his snowboard. He has long light turquoise blue hair that when tied together with his headband (that has Ainu styled patterns on it) sticks up in spikes. 

Horohoro is good-natured and cheerful, but he gets serious in dangerous situations. He argues constantly with his teammate [Ren](https://anilist.co/character/171/Ren-Tao), and they do not seem to get along at all.  However, it is shown that he really does care for Ren, when he tells [Yoh](https://anilist.co/character/167/Yoh-Asakura)  that if he can't save Ren, he would never forgive him. Horohoro is also very secretive about his past not willing to talk about it even to his friends. In addition, he can also get very competitive, even going so far as to turn [Ryu's](https://anilist.co/character/12677/Ryunosuke-Umemiya) arms to ice and shatter them during the shaman fights.

His main goal is to save the Koro Pokkuru ("Minutians" in the English anime), a tiny spirit people. As part of this goal, he intends to plant a vast field of Butterbur. During the battle, Horohoro mainly uses ice to either attack his opponent with projectiles or creating large chunks of barriers to protect himself.

~!During the Shaman Fight, he forms the team “The Ren” together with Ren and [Chocolove](https://anilist.co/character/15349/Chocolove-McDonell).!~

~!In the English anime version of the anime series, his real name is Horohoro but he prefers to be called Trey Racer. In both manga series and Japanese version of the anime series, his real name is Usui Horokeu(碓氷ホロケウ) and Horohoro is just a nickname.!~

Hiroyasu Ueda  is the owner of Chiroru, a local bakery which Yumi once worked in and which Chi ends up working at. He is 38 years old, although he looks as though he is only in his mid-20's, at one point noting jokingly that he has a "baby face". He, too, has suffered a trauma involving persocoms.    ~!When he first opened his bakery, he bought a persocom to help with math and accounting, which he admits he is terrible at. He eventually fell in love with this persocom and then married her, but she developed a hard disk fault which resulted in the gradual degradation of her memory, until she remembered almost nothing at all.  Rarely, she would suddenly recall small fragments of memories from her life with Hiroyasu. He could not bring himself to have her repaired because her memories might be lost completely in the process of transferring them to a new hard drive, and he felt she would not be the same person if this happened. Soon, her memory degraded to the point that she could not remember anything for more than a few seconds at a time, and Hiroyasu had keep a constant watch on her to prevent her from wandering away. One night while walking with his persocom, Hiroyasu, lost in thought, walked into the middle of the street, unaware of an oncoming car. In one final moment of clarity, his persocom pushed him out of the way, and was herself run over. Her last words to Hiroyasu were, "Konnichiwa."!~   ~!Hiroyasu and Yumi Omura were in love in the past, but broke up when Yumi quit her job at the bakery when she discovered that the persocom he married was named "Yumi" and feared she would never live up to the other Yumi. Through the help of Chi and Hideki, he and Yumi resume their relationship.!~  (Source: Wikipedia)

__Height__: 175 cm (5'8")
__Specialty__: Sculptures


A 6th year student in the beginning of the series, Morita occupies room 203, his floormates being Takemoto and Hasegawa. Morita is unable to graduate, as he can never wake up on time to go to classes. This is mainly due to the work that he does, which forces him to go missing for periods of time. What he does for work though remains a mystery. When Morita comes back from his mysterious job, he immediately falls asleep for at least 48 hours, due to the amount of work he does. He also returns with a large sum of money in his back-pocket and brings a food item to share with his flat mates. Although the flat mates believe he does it to mock them, such as when he brings a bag of croquettes instead of meat, Morita does care deeply for his friends such as Takemoto.  Morita is a very mysterious person. He does many random, crazy things for his personal enjoyment, such as creating a twister game with too many colors, which resulted in horrific pain for him and Takemoto. Morita is a perceptive individual, but tactless and often states the truth, such as how Mayama secretly stalks Rika outside her apartment, when nobody wants to hear it. He also expresses his love for Hagu in weird and quirky ways, such as forcing Hagu to dress up as a mouse. Morita's obsession with Hagu stems from a fondness of cute things during his childhood, such as causing a cat to become neurotic after cuddling it too much.    

~!As a result of Morita's obsession Hagu becomes afraid of him and tries to avoid him but eventually falls in love with him later on. Despite the way Morita treats Hagu he sincerely cares for Hagu, getting her a pair of expensive mules and creating a broach with a dove on it, both of which was in her scrapbook of things she wanted.  Later in the series, Morita leaves for America for work without saying anything to his friends. He eventually returns in about a year's time, and Morita's friends finally discover what he does for his work, being awarded best CGI in the Mocademy Awards (a spoof of the Academy Awards) for the movie 'Space Titanic', after studying with acclaimed director Peter Lucas. Morita's room, which no one had ever been inside, had also been discovered after his departure, and contained a lot of high tech equipment.  After returning from America, Morita finally manages to graduate from his course in his 8th year handing his work in on the very last day. Despite graduating and becoming rich from his work in America, Morita applies for a Japanese Arts course believing he hasn't studied for long enough, even though he's been there for 8 years. He re-enters the art school as a 3rd grade student, having already completed half the subjects. !~

One of the Dragons of earth, a dreamseer in a permanent coma, appearing as a tall man with a sad expression, golden eyes, long, pale hair, and almost always dressed in white. His ability to see the future in dreams was discovered at an early age, and as a result he was kept a prisoner by an unknown political group. Having never seen the outside world, he drew Sumeragi Hokuto into his dreams and fell in love with her after she showed him the sea through her own imagination. However, he foresaw that she would go to her death at the hands of the Sakurazukamori, and broke out of his room in an effort to stop her; shot by one of his guards with a sniper rifle, he failed to reach her in time and sank into the coma in which he spends the duration of the X story. He came to believe that the future was immutable, and began to wish for his death although unable to kill himself being in a physical coma.     __In Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle__   ~!  In Tokyo, he&#039;s one of the seven fighters of the City Hall faction. He has the ability to foresee the future through his dreams and welcomes Syaoran&#039;s group with much less hostility than the rest, as he already saw their coming.   !~

An author of romance novels, before marrying Natsue, Kaoru spent much of his time drinking sake while Himeno balanced the budget and cooked their meals. He stopped writing due to Himeno's mother's death. After he married Natsue, Kaoru spends much of his free time sculpting. In particular, after a comment by Hayate calling Himeno &quot;Tulip Head&quot;, Kaoru set out to sculpt a Tulip in dedication to her, which Himeno laments, and ultimately destroys

A student attending a certified culinary school who is proficient in French, Chinese, Italian and Japanese cooking. Kyohei is often seen wearing his chef uniform and riding a small motor scooter which is destroyed by Jo on two occasions. He is hired by Sei as a cook for the girls because their last cook had left. He continues working for the team to save up to go to France and become a pastry chef.

__Height:__ 171 cm (5'7")  

Keitarō Urashima is a 20-year-old cram-school student who is desperately trying to get into Tokyo University in order to fulfill a childhood promise he made to a girl 15 years ago. This proves to be very difficult since he has terrible luck, bad studying habits, and can't grasp the material as well as others leading him to fail the exam three times making him a third-year ronin. His grandmother later grants him ownership of the Hinata Inn, a girl's dorimatory. His clumsiness lands him into deep trouble with the girls at the Hinata Inn as he is prone to accidentally seeing them naked or tripping and touching them inappropriately. Despite his flaws, he is well-meaning, friendly, and very determined, traits which eventually wins all of the girls' hearts.

A hooded figure holding a cat puppet named Beelzenef, Umehito Nekozawa  hates bright light to the point that he calls anyone who drags him into the light as &#039;murderers&#039;. The Black Magic Club&rsquo;s president, he tries to get people to join his club though is not too successful. However, anyone who joins gets a free &quot;Beelzenef&quot; doll. Nekozawa has one as a puppet, but it is also available as a wooden doll. Nekozawa claims that if you write the name of the person you hate on the back of the doll, the person will be showered with misfortunes. Tamaki, especially, is superstitious about Nekozawa&#039;s curses due to having experienced them first-hand, or so he believes.

He is known as the strongest brave in the frontier who knocks down the monster by the music that he plays with a huge violin.  He beautifully is a genius musician and can play any musical instruments at once.   He is mean about money, and oneself lets another person fight without being going to fight, he is often called a brute.    However, he is occasionally gentle in the person who can&#039;t stand being alone.   He is actually a Demon King Chestra&#039;s son. He was persecuted to the infant stage, and kept always concealing the corner of the head with the hat.   When the blood of the demon in him awakes, he is transfigured to the satan who continues destruction and the homicide. He is afraid of it very much.    He in Anime is taciturn and negative.   He is a memory loss and the flute is a childhood friend.

&quot;Brother&quot; to Amalla and Kaolla. In reality, he is a cousin of theirs, but they have grown up as siblings. He is the king of their nation, and in the tradition of their people, he has to serve in the military for a period of time. Before that happens, he is required to marry. Once when Su was a very young girl he promised to marry her, but then he realises that she only sees him as a brother, whereas Amalla is in love with him

Takeshi appeared primarily as an opponent to Satoshi in his debut episode; unlike later Gym Leaders, he requested to join Satoshi on his journey, aiming to be the world's greatest Pokémon Breeder.

Takeshi mainly provides an advisory role to the other main characters of the anime, being several years older than the rest of them. His knowledge of Pokémon battles is great, causing him to often referee matches between Satoshi and others. Takeshi also fancies himself as something of a ladies' man, though each time he hits on someone he is either rejected outright; pulled away by Kasumi or Masato; or, more recently, Poison Jabbed by his Gureggru.

A former journalist who now earns money by blackmailing celebrities with evidence of their scandals. He began to investigate Jigoku Tsuushin merely out of interest, but becomes more heavily involved once he realizes that it's more than just a rumor and people are actually being dragged into Hell. Furthermore, his daughter Tsugumi seems to have a mysterious connection with Enma Ai that allows her to see anything significant that Ai sees. (Wikipedia)

Adashino is the doctor of a seaside village whom [Ginko](https://anilist.co/character/425/Ginko) occasionally visits to sell Mushi-related items to. His hobby is collecting such items and keeps them in a shed behind his home.

(Source: Mushishi Wiki, edited)

William Jones' best friend, who is a prince from India, and acts as a foil for William. He and William both attended Eton College. Somewhat of a womanizer, Hakim's straightforwardness and outgoingness is a clear departure from William's reservedness and dislike for social events. Hakim usually has his servant harem accompanying him and travels with a full complement of servants and elephants. Like William, Hakim was captivated with Emma the first time he saw her.  His stay in England was prolonged simply because he wanted to see how the relationship between Emma and William progressed. Once he found out that Emma was in love with William, he tried to encourage their relationship into something further, but he let go Emma when she said that she would go back to her hometown, and made no efforts to prevent her from leaving. When William finally proposed to Eleanor, Hakim finally said that he would go back home. To him, there was no more excitement seeing William surrender to the pressure of the society.  According to Mori, Hakim was originally intended to be a pure rival to William, but his role in the story changed as it progressed.  (Source: Wikipedia)

Setsuna's drug dealing upperclassman and one of Sakuya Kira's friends. He is short-tempered, but his anger rarely lasts. He has a bad relationship with his family, stemming from his status as an illegitimate child. Though he is killed by Rosiel, he is revived in Hades and joins Setsuna on his journey.

Second Lieutenant Jean Havoc likes to smoke, and is almost always pictured with a cigarette in his mouth. He is a fair shot with a gun, and one of Roy Mustang's loyal followers; he gives Edward a stern talking-to when Ed bad-mouths Mustang for only caring about promotions. Havoc is a strict man of duty, a very by-the-book soldier, even if he doesn't always agree with the orders.

~!He becomes paralysed from the legs down due to a wound given to him by Lust.!~

Rowe Rickenbacker is a secret agent working for Cloud 7 and the more outspoken partner of [Jack Hofner](https://anilist.co/character/4727). Like Jack, he smokes when he is not on a mission. Rowe is also a master of disguise and often works undercover.

He is a Seiryuu Celestial Warrior. He is the elder twin brother of Suboshi and was born in Tenryou, San&#039;un Province in Kutou Empire. The true name is Koutoku Bu, born under the star Neck. As a Celestial Warrior, Amiboshi is capable of emitting chi through his mouth and channel it through a flute to control the will of others. A skilled flute player, Amiboshi holds the instrument to the left when using his powers, but to the right when he is simply playing the flute. He works as a spy. Tranquil and reserved, Amiboshi can become single-minded and merciless.

He is a Seiryuu Celestial Warrior and the younger twin brother of Amiboshi. The true name is Shunkaku Bu, born under the star Horn. As a Celestial Warrior, he is able to use a secret weapon known as the Ryuuseisui, a double meteor bell, and control it with his will alone. He and his brother are also able to communicate with one another by writing messages on their bodies.    In terms of temperament, Suboshi is fierce, impulsive, and stubborn to a fault, unwilling to listen to reason once he becomes determined to do something. He and his brother are extremely close as a result of their losing their parents at a young age and having a tough childhood. Suboshi is particularly devoted to his brother and will not hesitate to kill if it means protecting Amiboshi, even killing fellow Seiryuu warrior Tomo without a second thought for this reason alone.

The series protagonist. A 25-year-old foreign cosmetics maker and elite salaryman. He was introduced to Yura through an omiai. He is very critical of his own sexual abilities, but that doesn't hinder him from having sexual fantasies with any pretty girl in his vicinity (ultimately, though, he stays faithful to Yura). Nevertheless, after his marriage he attracts the attention of a lot of female admirers.

(Source: Wikipedia)

__Height:__ 160 cm 
__Dominant Hand:__ Right 
__Play Style:__ Serve and Volley 
__Special non-tennis skill:__ He can recite all the "stands" in "JoJo", "stand" being a special ability featured in the manga series "Jojo's Bizzare Adventures"

Akutagawa Jirou is known as the person who sleeps a lot, and is often carried around by Kabaji. He defeated St. Rudolph's Fuji Yuuta within 10 - 15 minutes. He is a cheerful person and he gets really excited when he plays with a very strong person. He is a huge fan of Rikkai dai's Marui Bunta.

Solf J. Kimblee is an ex-war criminal and a veteran of the Ishbal War. His alchemy title refers to his use of sulfur in the human body to create explosive fluids, turning people into living bombs.  

His personality seems almost split in two; at times he can be polite, if curt, straightforward, rational, and "civilized." However, in battle he displays an uncanny and foreboding demeanor in favor of destruction and damnation. Kimblee's powers appear to be much the same as those in the Anime, except that he can transmute and detonate from a distance as well, using the ground as a connecting force, causing huge explosions (though probably it is because his force is imbued with Philosopher's Stone).

__Spouse:__ [Omi Minami](https://anilist.co/staff/95323)
__Education:__ Tamagawa University
__Hobbies:__ music, photography, violin
__Skills & Abilities:__ Japanese swordfighting (Tate)

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